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How do you know yer alive if you don't hurt?

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Patrick Ness
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: October 17
Author
Journalist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Fairfax
Virginia
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You be as angry as you need to be,” she said. “Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. Not your grandma, not your dad, no one. And if you need to break things, then by God, you break them good and hard.
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And here was a man who lived on belief, but who sacrificed it at the first challenge, right when he needed it most
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To live is to fight, to preserve life is to fight everything that man stands for.
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Too much talking, I say. Not enough running.
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Viola blows out a thoughtful air. My dad used to say, 'There's only forward, Vi, only outward and up.' There's only forward, I repeat. Outward and up, she says.
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We sure as ruddy heck ain't in Prentisstown no more, I say to Manchee under my breath.
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I will not allow anyone to take anything off my palette but if I do then within that, I can be creative.
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And too much informayshun can drive a man mad. Too much informayshun becomes just Noise. And it never, never stops.
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As destruction goes, the monster said behind him, this is all remarkably pitiful.
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That's what librarians do. They open up the world. Because knowledge is useless if you don’t know how to find it, if you don’t even know where to begin to look.
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A knife is only as good as the one who wields it.
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Yer the only friend I got, pigpiss... Ain't that the biggest tragedy you ever heard?
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Here is the boy, drowning.
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The justifications of men who kill should always be heard with skepticism, said the monster.
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You can eff off, too, I say, except I don't say eff, I say what 'eff' stands for.
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Teenagers are the greatest readers in the world - honest, unsnobby and loyal
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Librarians open up the world. Knowledge is useless if you don't even know where to begin to look. How much more can you discover when someone can point you in the right direction, when someone can maybe even give you a treasure map, to places you may not have even thought you were allowed to go? This is what librarians do.
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You do not write your life with words...You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.
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Life ain't fair. It ain't. Not never.
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